Abdelghafour SAIDI

The upstream of the petroleum industry involves itself in the business of oil and gas exploration and production (E & P) activities. While the exploration activities find oil and gas reserves, the production activities deliver oil and gas to the downstream of the industry (i.e., processing plants). The petroleum production is definitely the heart of the petroleum industry. Petroleum production engineering is that part of petroleum engineering that attempts to maximize oil and gas production in a cost-effective manner. To achieve this objective, production engineers need to have a thorough understanding of the petroleum production systems with which they work. To perform their job correctly, production engineers should have solid background and sound knowledge about the properties of fluids they produce and working principles of all the major components of producing wells and surface facilities. This part of the book provides graduating production engineers with fundamentals of petroleum production engineering. Materials are presented in the following eight chapters: Chapter

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Gas is focusing on optimization; a timely topic as this newspaper gears up to host one of the largest oil industry conventions in Egypt. The convention, to be held from May 10-13th, will feature roundtables, workshops, training courses, and exhibitions. To prepare our readers for the event, we have articles this month focusing on optimization from different perspectives; including from service companies, large international firms, and an overview of the entire industry. This month our newspaper also gives special attention to the deal that everyone is talking about; the BP-DEA investment in the North Alexandria and West Nile Delta concessions. With $12 billion pledged to the projects, we would be remiss to not cover the topic in-depth for our readers. This newspaper is excited to see the concessions finalized and coming together. We also have features covering the current political crisis in Yemen, especially as the conflict relates to Egypt and the security of Red Sea shipping, as well as an overview of the current state of affairs of E&P in Egypt by Dr. Shawki Abdeen. Above all, Egypt Oil & Gas is committed to bringing you the more relevant, upto-date information about the sector; both in Egypt and the rest of the Middle East. We hope you enjoy this issue and find it informative and helpful.

Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, 2002

The JCPTand the Canadian Association for the WPC agreed that itwould be a timely and valued service to readers and delegates to the 17th WorldPetroleum Congress to publish a series of articles reviewing several keypetroleum technologies receiving attention in Canada. Distinguished authoritieson the technologies agreed to contribute short summary articles on Canadianresearch and field experience in specific areas. These articles are included inthis issue: The Evolution of Imperial Oil's Cold Lake Development by Raj Patel and BruceRauch Innovative Steam Injection Techniques Overcome Adverse Reservoir Conditionsby S.M. Farouq Ali Air Injection for Oil Recovery by Gord Moore, Raj Mehta, and MatthewUrsenbach Suncor's Path to Growth - Oil Sands Projects and Technology by K.C.Yeung Downhole Oil/Water Separation's Canadian Roots by Bruce Peachey and ToddZahacy Canada's Recovered Sulphur - In the World Class by Jim Hyne VAPEX - A Unique Canadian Technology by Swapan Das Canad...

Engineering is the profession in which knowledge of mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience and practice applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. Engineers are persons, who, by reason of their special knowledge and the use of mathematical, physical and engineering sciences and the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, acquired by education and experience, are qualified to practice engineering. However, the most useful approach is to simply regard the engineer as a doer, a problem solver, who applies science and technology to solve the problems and meet the needs of society. The engineer is an innovator and creator of new products and processes aimed at solving problems in a practical and economic fashion.

The persistent poor performance of water resource systems (WRS) has been reportedly linked to not only climate change and dilapidated water infrastructures but also human unlawful activities. Some of these unlawful activities include unauthorized water abstractions, wastage, excessive losses, discharging untreated wastewater, over-application of chemicals and fraudulent incidences. Despite advances in WRS planning and operational analysis, incorporating such undesirable activities to quantitatively assess their impact on WRS performance remain elusive. This study was then inspired by the need to develop a methodological framework for WRS performance assessment that integrated human impacts with WRS analysis tasks. A conceptual framework for assessing the impact of human behaviour on WRS performance using the concept of socio-hydrology is proposed herein. The framework identifies and coupled four major sources of water values (WRS, goals, managers and users) using three activities serving as the missing links between these values (interactions, outcomes and feedbacks). The framework can be used as a database for choosing relevant social and hydrological variables and to understand the inherent relations between the selected variables to study a specific human-water problem in the context of WRS management.

Traditionally, engineers in the oil and gas industry learned their trade on the job. To master all the skill for the full spectrum of Upstream Oil and Gas operation they would take ten to fifteen years. They need to undergo the job rotation at various departments or section in the companies. The current oil and Gas competition does not give the oil company the luxury of time, they need to get their technical staff ready for new challenges within short time. The Production Academy of PETRONAS Upstream Operation collaborated with INSTEP desired to cut the long learning curve by 50%. The young graduates, after undergone this UOIP training could be expected to rise to the management position with three to five years of service. The young technical graduates from upstream operation local and international are brought to INSTEP for one-year induction training where the first four months they learn the theoretical aspect of offshore operation from the reservoir to well completion, surface facilities and pipe line. The next two months, they were sent to various offshore installations in Malaysia to learn the job experientially, Completing their two months at offshore, they will back at INSTEP for the theoretical on onshore terminal operation, the contractual aspect of operation and the customers. During the training they will undergo the Soft skill training, team building and must participate in Corporates Social Responsibility that they have organised by themselves. The graduate will be fully rounded engineers that will be work-ready in any section or department of upstream operation.